[Women’s History Month\Poet Sonia Sanchez]
Sanchez: “And in my head, i see my history, standing like a shy child, and i chant lullabies, as i ride my past on horseback, tasting
the thirst of yesterday tribes, hearing the ancient/black/woman, me…”
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Women’s History Month
SONIA SANCHEZ’S POEM PRESENT: “I SEE MY HISTORY, HEARING THE ANCIENT BLACK WOMAN, ME”
AUDRE LORDE’S 1981 SPEECH ON WOMEN USING ANGER IN “RESPONSE TO RACISM”
[Women’s History Month\Audre Lorde]
Lorde: “I cannot hide my anger to spare you guilt, nor hurt feelings… In the male construct of brute force, we were taught that our lives depended upon the goodwill of patriarchal power.”
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SHIRLEY CHISHOLM’S 1970 CONGRESSIONAL EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT SPEECH: “WHAT DOES SEX HAVE TO DO WITH IT?”
[Women’s History Month\Shirley Chisholm]
Shirley Chisholm: “The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no Black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers.”
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